Former Maryland Corrections Officer Convicted for Beating Inmate and Ensuing Cover-Up

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 20, 2014. The Justice Department announced that James Kalbflesh, a former correctional officer at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., was convicted today by a federal jury on three civil rights and conspiracy counts related to his participation in the beating of an RCI inmate in 2008 and the cover-up that followed.  A second defendant, Lt. Jason Weicht, was acquitted on one charge of conspiring to help cover up the assault.